Are defenses defending Maddox differently as he gets more playing time?
• No. I don’t think so. The other day they played a defense to take away the running game. They had 8 or 9 guys in the box. We threw the ball. That’s going to be the thing. If people want to take away Plax and Hines (Ward) and start playing a little cover-two, then we have to be able to run the football. That’s the dilemma you get into. You want to play a 3-deep defense and bring an eighth defender into the box; you’d like to think that now you can throw the football. That’s a little bit of the chess match you have on first and second down. But I don’t see it being much different. I think we’ve run the ball pretty effectively. • Once you can get up and get a lead, now you’ve got them on their heels. That’s why at times, when they’re going to defend the run, we still run it. We probably haven’t been as effective. … We play the clock games. Right, wrong, at times we do. How did Chukky Okobi play? • He played very well. He played very well. Our offensive line played very well, and they’ve
